📣 We’re kicking off the first klogW seminar of the year!
Join us on April 21st at 12PM EST for a talk by Douglas Jerolmack (UPenn) — 2026 APS-DSNP Fellow — presenting "Fragility of Soft Earth Materials" 🌎🌍🌏

Registration link: apsphysics.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

New paper in @physreve.bsky.social:

Quantum thermodynamics of Gross-Pitaevskii qubits

journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...

Congrats to QSI Graduate Fellow @reecejrobertson.bsky.social
for winning UMBC's 3MT competition today! Next stop, Regionals!
gears.umbc.edu/3mt/

📣 DSNP Early-Career Spotlight: Megan Engel from University of Calgary! Her research focuses on molecular motors' efficiency—and how to apply these principles to bio-nanotechnology.
Check out the interview below!

Want to suggest who to feature next? Email us at gsnpsocialmedia@gmail.com

📣 After a fantastic Squishy Sunday event, the APS Global Physics Summit 2026 has officially started!

Check out the DSNP session schedule below. Come say hi at the DSNP table and get your members-only T-shirt!

#APSSummit2026 #GlobalPhysicsSummit #DSNP #StatisticalPhysics #NonlinearPhysics #APS

Over 30 years of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics in _Physical Review E_ APS Division of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and <em>Physical Review E</em> review over 30 years of research in the division’s areas.

🎉 30 years of Statistical & Nonlinear Physics — and we're just getting started!
To mark the transition from APS G to D, @physreve.bsky.social have highlighted the most influential papers that drew the map of the field.
📖 journals.aps.org/over-30-years
#StatisticalPhysics #DSNP #Physics

Excited for #APSSummit26? We are too!
Come join us, we’re looking for volunteers!
@apsphysics.bsky.social
#StatsPhys #NonlinearPhys
Details 👇

We’re delighted to share a new editorial in
@physreve.bsky.social (PRE) on the DSNP Dissertation Award in #Statistical & #Nonlinear Physics, marking the inaugural year of PRE sponsorship. Congratulations to the winner, 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐬 𝐕𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚, from UvA 🎉

Read more: journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...

Over 30 years of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics in _Physical Review E_ APS Division of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and <em>Physical Review E</em> review over 30 years of research in the division’s areas.

At the upcoming Global Physics Summit in Denver, @aps-dsnp.bsky.social will be celebrating our advancement from Topical Group to Division!

To kick the party off, here is a collection of highlights published in @physreve.bsky.social:

journals.aps.org/over-30-years

Variational Gibbs State Preparation on Trapped-Ion Devices We implement a variational quantum algorithm for Gibbs state preparation of a transverse-field Ising model on IonQ's quantum computers. To this end, we train the variational parameters via classical s...

A variational quantum algorithm is implemented on IonQ hardware to prepare Gibbs states of the transverse-field Ising model, with fidelities evaluated via state tomography.
@reecejrobertson.bsky.social, @quthermo.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2603.03801

New preprint by @reecejrobertson.bsky.social!

Variational Gibbs State Preparation on Trapped-Ion Devices We implement a variational quantum algorithm for Gibbs state preparation of a transverse-field Ising model on IonQ's quantum computers. To this end, we train the variational parameters via classical s...

What are NISQ computers good for? Well, possibly many things. But definitely for the preparation of Gibbs states:

arxiv.org/abs/2603.03801

The Qalypso School on Quantum Science in Malta returns for its 3rd edition Aug 31 - Sep 4 this year! 🏖️

We have a great line up of lecturers covering Quantum Optimisation, Quantum Thermodynamics and Quantum Gibbs Sampling.

Pre-registrations opens today at forms.gle/3NkMJ3Br9V8b...

Do Share!

Why can't we better prepare for extreme weather? Thanks to advanced technology, we can now see droughts and crop failures months before they hit. So why are millions of people still going hungry? TED Fellow Catherine Nakalembe, director of the NASA ...

The amazing Prof. Nakalembe taking the TED stage: www.ted.com/talks/cather...

Introducing UNIQuE: The Unconventional Noiseless Intermediate Quantum Emulator We implement an open-source quantum computing emulator that includes arithmetic operations, the quantum Fourier transform, and quantum phase estimation. The emulator provides significant savings in bo...

New paper on #QuantumComputing emulation just posted to @ieeexplore.bsky.social! I was thrilled to share this work at the @ieeeorg.bsky.social #CASCON2025 conference last November. The project @github.com was awarded an IEEE Research Object Reviewed Badge.

ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/113...

Quantum speed limit for the out-of-time-ordered correlator from an open-system perspective A quantum speed limit for the decay of out-of-time-ordered correlators is established by interpreting information scrambling in a closed quantum system as effective decoherence, relating the scramblin...

journals.aps.org/pra/abstract...

From compatibility of measurements to exploring Quantum Darwinism on NISQ Quantum Darwinism explains how tenets of classical reality, such as objectivity and repeatability, emerge within a quantum universe. As a mathematical framework, Quantum Darwinism also provides guidin...

New preprint: employing NISQ to verify the tenets of Quantum Darwinism

arxiv.org/abs/2601.05350

Thermodynamic significance of QUBO encoding on quantum annealers Quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) is the standard interface to quantum annealers, yet a single constrained task admits many QUBO encodings whose penalty choices reshape the energy lan...

Does it matter thermodynamically how to code your algorithm? On quantum annealers it matters a lot:

arxiv.org/abs/2601.04402

To what extent can noisy quantum circuits be classically simulated? And at what point is this no longer true, so that one can hope for a quantum advantage? This is a compelling research question. Here, we suggest frames to do so, extending known Monte Carlo methods.

scirate.com/arxiv/2601.0...

Do Bose-Hubbard type systems have a speed of sound for particle propagation?

scirate.com/arxiv/2601.001…

Yes. This work proves a strikingly simple bound of this kind for particle propagation for generalized Bose–Hubbard models defined on general lattices.

Happy 40th Birthday @epljournal.bsky.social

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Fluctuation theorems for autonomous work | PNAS Classical fluctuation theorems for work have been obtained theoretically, and verified experimentally, within a nonautonomous framework in which wo...

Fluctuation theorems for autonomous work | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

More than anything else this seems to be another indication of the unprecedented opportunity for other countries to poach and recruit US-based academics.

We’re hiring!

The Department of Physics
@sfuphysics.bsky.social
at Simon Fraser U (in beautiful and vibrant Vancouver) seeks applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Experimental Biophysics, encompassing all scales of life from molecules to ecosystems.
@sfuscience.bsky.social

Do you wonder what Shortcuts to Adiabaticity are really good for? How about correcting quantum gate errors?

New publication in @epljournal.bsky.social

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Demon with dementia - the deterioration of information transcription In introductory biology, aging is typically explained as a result of mutations during the DNA replication process within cells. Upon abstraction, we recognize that cellular aging can be understood as ...

Have you ever wondered if Maxwell's demon could get dementia? And if so, how would you model it? Wonder no further! Here is the very first manuscript of my grad student Maggie Williams together with Emery Doucet.

arxiv.org/abs/2511.15691

Trump’s immigration crackdown is keeping foreign professionals out Federal authorities are denying more work visas and green cards, vetting social media posts and applying enhanced scrutiny to foreign employees’ credentials.

The Trump administration’s crackdown on legal immigration is making it tougher for doctors, engineers, professors and artists to get permission to work and live in the U.S.

For foreign professionals, the crackdown has meant new levels of anguish and fear.

Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending' A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

Yup! 75% of us are considering leaving (/made plans to leave/already left) 😢 🧪

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Quantum Science Institute @umbc.bsky.social representation at the Quantum Leap Career Nexus!

This is a manuscript I am particularly happy with. It concerns topics I have been working on for my PhD, entanglement theory, going back to the work of Bennett et al. Yet it still has a fresh flavour, relating the subject to modern developments in quantum computing.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...